Lost (Paul Lahote story)

La Push

It's been two years since I lived in La Push.

My parents split up when i was nothing but an infant. After my mother remarried she had another child with my stepfather Steve. Tango is 3 years younger than me and the only reason I decided it was time to come back.

But me leaving started because I had gotten into an argument and lost control. I had so much anger, I was shaking and my temperature was building up. My uncle had made Jake leave with Tango to go find Sam so they wouldn't see what was next. It had turned out that I was shape shifter, exactly like the ones in the legends my mother would tell me as a kid. Sam wasn't able to really help me because he had just phased, but after I learned everything, about what it all meant, and I ran from it.

A year later, my mother and Steve went sailing for their anniversary, they had a terrible accident. So Tango decided to come live with me. Now after a year we decided to move back to La Push. I missed my old life. I still have a month and a half of school left until I graduate, so I decided to finish school here, in my home town.

Jacob, Embry and Quil are my best friends. The only difference is that Quil, Jake and I are cousins.
It made me sad leaving them, but I had to, I didn't want this. I know it hurt my uncle when my brother also decided to leave. He had warned me to be careful and keep an eye on him, but after a whole year, I saw it was soon time for him. So I made the decision for us to come back.

Now, I'm patiently driving down a long road trying to get to my uncles home. I still had a few miles until we arrived. So we took the time to enjoy looking at the forest as I drove by. I had forgotten how beautiful it was here.

"Lily!" I heard when I was getting out of the car. I turned around to see Jacob running towards me and give me hug.

"Hey Uncle Billy." We said walking inside with our luggage. I put my stuff down to go hug him. He was my mom's older brothers.

"I'm glad your back." He said when I pulled away. I just nodded, knowing exactly what he meant.

After Tango and I got settled, I decided to cook diner for everyone. It was the least I could do since we were going to be living here for a while. Eventually Sue came over. We ate and got caught up. I was really shocked to find out that Leah also joined the pack. I wouldn't be alone, and Seth! I still considered him a little kid, so it worried me that he had joined at such a young age, but then again, Tango is just fourteen.
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I couldn't sleep. I laid in bed, I was laying here, worried about tomorrow. I would be seeing Embry and Quil tomorrow. Over the two years, i didn't stay in touch with them. I completely ignored them, and when I spoke to Jacob he would tell me they said hi. I never said anything back.

Now, it's Sunday afternoon, and Jake and I are down at the grocery store.

"Hey, so the plan was for Quil and Embry to come over, but word got out so now the whole pack is coming... well except for Leah and Seth, their patrolling. Oh and Sam won't either. I hope you don't mind."

"Why would I mind? I mean I'm supposed to meet the rest of the pack at some point and It's your house."

"Well, technically you kind of know them."

"I do?"

"Yeah, I think so. I don't know."

Hours later, I heard knocking on the kitchen door so I wen to open it to let the guys in, but they were quick to attack me.

"You have no idea how much we've missed you!" Quil shouted after making Embry pull away so that he could hug me.

"Is the food ready? By the way that's Jared, Brady and Collin." Embry says walking into the kitchen. "Is Paul here yet?" He asks opening the refrigerator.